On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:27 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Sean Bruno wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Third, and the most annoying, was that I couldn't install a plain s/w
> > raid configuration with 2 drives connected. There was just no way to
> > keep the system from assuming that I meant to use /dev/mapper/mapper0
> > even after I ensured that the superblock metadata was wiped out with a
> > quick call to 'dmraid -Er /dev/sdX' to be sure that it was really gone.
> <snip>
> > Sean
> >
>
> On my x86 box, I used the "nompath" parameter during install to prevent
> /dev/mapper/mapper0 from being used and then could see all disks
> properly, including pre-existing software raid arrays. Seems that even
> if you are not using the bios raid capability of a SATA setup, anaconda
> thinks you want to. Must be a way to check the bios to see if the setup
> is for raid or not.
That didn't work for me. I am still presented with
the /dev/mapper/mapper0 device as my only install target.
Sean